This was originally established after the war as a kind of super,
multilateral aid agency which lent liquidity to developing nations but which was captured in the 90s by the Green Blob and now puts «sustainability» before industrial development.
Are climate finance contributor countries,
multilateral aid agencies and specialized funds using widely accepted best practices in foreign assistance?
To be attained by 2015, these were, of course, entirely laudable — e.g., «eradicate extreme poverty and hunger» and «achieve universal primary education» — and they have definitely influenced the priorities of various UN agencies, other governmental and
multilateral aid providers, and private philanthropies.
The Department for International Development's 2011
multilateral aid review rated nine organisations to be poor.
The report also warned that the government should do more to monitor
multilateral aid organisations.
The international community finances the UN operation in the Congo with 1.4 billion US$ (UN 2011) and additional bilateral and
multilateral aid programmes, but it is doing shamefully little to assure these elections put the country on a firm track towards consolidation.
The prevailing terms of trade, monetary policy, and certain conditions tied to bilateral and
multilateral aid, which are all perpetuated by the non-democratic decision - making processes of international economic, financial and trade institutions, also frustrate the full realization of the right to development9.
The United States succeeded in cutting off
multilateral aid, aggressively lobbied allies to reduce economic assistance, and slapped a trade embargo on Nicaragua.
Not exact matches
It was also the economic theory underlying the development assistance programs of both
multilateral and national development
aid programs.
As Julius Nyerere, president of Tanzania, pointed out in a speech at the recent World Conference on Agrarian Reform and Rural Development, held in Rome, the officials of
multilateral and some national
aid agencies are turning to a «basic needs» approach — i.e., shifting to rural development as the major focus for
aid.
Even countries such as Germany, where fiscal constraints have been less severe, faced increasing pressure on the visibility of national
aid spending and have become more suspicious of channelling
aid through
multilateral channels, especially the EU.
John Kerry has responded by promising to double the amount government spends on
AIDS and to work more closely with
multilateral organizations such as the Global Fund.
In addition to working for a reform of
multilateral and bilateral
aid, Urgewald has also begun to monitor subsidies that the German Government provides for private sector projects in Southern countries.
Then there's a legal connection, because the site's in
aid of a
multilateral treaty.